American Academy of Pediatrics Clinical Practice Guidelines for Screening and Management of High Blood Pressure in Children and Adolescents: What is New?
Loading...
Date
2019-04
Journal Title
Journal ISSN
Volume Title
Publisher
Indian Academy of Pediatrics
Abstract
Childhood hypertension has become a significant health concern. There have been a slew of important new findings in this field over thelast decade. This has led to an update by the American Academy of Pediatrics of the original recommendation of United States FourthWorking Group on blood pressure. We herein describe the important changes in the guideline, which include an updated normativedata, change in blood pressure classification, strong endorsement of ambulatory blood pressure measurement and the reduction in theblood pressure target for both chronic kidney disease and non-chronic kidney disease hypertensive children.
Description
Keywords
Classification, Diagnosis, Hypertension, Treatment
Citation
Sinha Rajiv, Saha Abhijeet, Samuels Joshua. American Academy of Pediatrics Clinical Practice Guidelines for Screening and Management of High Blood Pressure in Children and Adolescents: What is New?. Indian Pediatrics. 2019 Apr; 56(4): 317-322